Seamount abundances and abyssal hill morphology on the eastern flank of the East Pacific Rise at 14°S

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1955-1958

  Grevemeyer, Ingo ^a,b   Renard, Vincent ^c   Jennrich, Claudia ^a   Weigel, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; BATHYMETRY; SONAR; TECTONICS;

BATHYMETRIC DATA; EAST PACIFIC RISE; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC DATA; MULTIBEAM SONAR; RMS HEIGHTS; SPREADING RATE; STRONG CORRELATION;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ABYSSAL HILL MORPHOLOGY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEAMOUNTS;

ABYSSAL HILL; MID OCEAN RIDGE; SEA FLOOR SPREADING; SEAMOUNT; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0031200897     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01820     Document Type: Article

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